Shirkat Gah strives to build the capacity of women as rights claimants, able to make informed decisions, as well as to create alternative life-choices; advocate and mobilise for positive changes in policies and practices from the community to the international arena; hold the state accountable and develop a culture of peace, ensuring sustainable and equitable use of resources and full inclusion of rights of all people.

Shirkat Gah - Women's Resource Center was formed in 1975 as a collective effort to integrate consciousness raising with a rights and development perspective and to initiate projects translating advocacy in action. Today, Shirkat Gah has expanded well beyond the collective to an organisation operating across Pakistan, regionally and internationally, and enjoys ECOSOC status at the United Nations. Living upto its name (literally a place of participation), Shirkat Gah adopts a participatory approach in its internal functioning and all its activities.